United States History Student Edition

Ooloocha, from The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 Mary Hill, from Family Stories From the Trail of Tears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 John Quincy Adams, from a letter to his father, John Adams, August 31, 1811 . . . . . . . . 326 John O’Sullivan, from “The Origin of Manifest Destiny,” The American Historical Review, 1927 . . . . .327 William Becknell, from “Journals From Boon’s Lick to Santa Fe and from Santa Cruz to Green River,” Missouri Historical Review, 1910 . . . . . . . 331 James K. Polk, from “Polk’s Mexican War Message,” The Addresses and Messages of the Presidents of the United States, Inaugural, Annual, and Special, From 1780 to 1854 . . . . . . . . .333 John Quincy Adams, from a letter to his father, John Adams, August 31, 1811 . . . . . . . . 336 John Greenleaf Whittier, from “We Cross the Prairie as of Old,” 1854 . . . . . . . . . . .336 Juan Seguín, from Personal Memoirs of Juan Seguín, From the Year 1834 to the Retreat of General Woll from the City of San Antonio, 1842 . . . . . .338 John O’Sullivan, from “Annexation,” the Democratic Review, July–August 1845 . . . .338 Narcissa Whitman, from a letter to her mother, September 3, 1836 . . . . . . . . . . . . 339 Elizabeth Dixon Smith Greer, from Diary of Mrs. Elizabeth Dixon Smith Greer , Oregon Pioneer Association . . . . . . . . . . . .339 James W. Nesmith, from “Diary of the Emigration of 1843” . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 “California, Why We Come; Myth or Reality,” California Historical Society Quarterly , 1965 . . . . . . . 341 Life on the Plains and Among the Diggings, 1854 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .342 R. B. Mason, from a letter to J. A. Sutter, March 5, 1848 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .346 Jessie Benton Frémont, from A Year of American Travel, 1878 . . . . . . . . . . . 346 George Keller, from “A Guide of the Route from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean,” A Trip Across the Plains, and Life in California, 1851 . . . . 348 Leonard Kip, from California Sketches, With Recollections of the Gold Mines, 1850 . . . . . . . .348 James H. Carson, from Early Recollections of the Mines, 1852 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350 Albert Gallatin, from Peace With Mexico, 1847 . 353 TOPIC 8 Josiah Henson, from An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom”) from 1789–1881, 1878 . . . . . 356

Roger B. Taney, Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge, 1837 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363 Samuel Morse, from Leading American Inventors, 1912 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364 John Deere, from “Happy Birthday, John Deere!” Smithsonian Magazine, 2011 . . . . . . . . 365 Sarah Bagley, from “Pleasures of Factory Life,” The Lowell Offering, 1840 . . . . . . . . . 372 Sarah Bagley, from The Voice of Industry, September 18, 1845 . . . . . . . . . . . . 372 Petition to the Massachusetts Legislature, from The Voice of Industry , January 15, 1845 . . . 373 Report of the Special Committee to Which Was Referred Sundry Petitions Relating to the Hours of Labor, from Massachusetts House Document, No. 50, March 1845 . . . . . . . . . . . . 373 Margaret McCarthy, from “An Irish Emigrant to New York Writes Home,” 1849 . . . . . . . . 374 Charles Dickens, from American Notes for General Circulation, 1842 . . . . . . . . . . 374 Wm. C. Marion, from “Wide Awake Yankee Doodle” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375 Preamble and Constitution, Nativist Convention, Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1837 . . . . . . 376 W. H. Sparks, from The Memories of Fifty Years, 1870 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377 Louis Wigfall, from a letter to William Howard Russell, 1861 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379 The Huntsville Advocate, April 6, 1849 . . . . .379 Frederick Douglass, from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself, 1845 . . . . . . . . . . 388 William and Ellen Craft, from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, 1860 . . . . . . . . . . 388 Charles Ball, from A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, 1837 . . . . . . 390 Harriet Jacobs, from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391 Lyman Beecher, from Autobiography, Correspondence, Etc., of Lyman Beecher, 1866 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .394 Lucretia Mott, from Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary, and Reminiscences, 1922 . . . . . . . . . . . .395 Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, from Report of the Woman’s Rights Convention, July 19–20, 1848 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396 Catharine Beecher, from Autobiography of Catharine Beecher , 1878 . . . . . . . . . .397 Mary Lyon, from “The Legacy of Mary Lyon” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397 Henry David Thoreau, from Walden; or, Life in the Woods, 1854 . . . . . . . . . . 400

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